"Pornography and Violence in the
Communications Media: A Pastoral Response."[1]

Anti-Life Philosophy.

Most sexually explicit material is completely harmless. In fact, if it
is free of violence against women, it is actually good for society,
because it is a "cathartic:" Instead of carrying out violent acts,
possible sexual offenders may simply fantasize about these acts and will
therefore not be tempted to actually commit them.

What Is Pornography?

There must be no coarseness, or salacious talk and jokes all this is
wrong for you.

Ephesians 5:4.

The court system in this country has heard hundreds of cases whose
central feature was the attempted definition of pornography. Learned men
and women wrangle constantly over the definition of pornography, usually
with no enduring result.

However, one common-sense definition would be that porn is "the
literature of sexual deviance." In other words, it is literature that
mentally sick and sexually maladjusted individuals enjoy reading.

Psychiatrists have identified about sixty different specific types of
sexual deviance, or "paraphilias," including sado-masochism,
homosexuality, fetishism, transvestitism, pedophilia, group sex,
necrophilia (a sexual obsession with dead bodies), and bestiality. Each of
these perversions has its own specialty magazines, videos, clubs,
newsletters, and films. This vast body of literature and film can be
defined as pornographic in one sense or another, in that it depicts
extreme or unusual violence and/or sexual practices.

Pornography is a $20 billion per year industry in this country alone,
and more than 200,000,000 issues of the 800 most popular soft-core and
hard-core pornography magazines are sold every year.

Chapters 132 to 138 examine the various types of pornography that are
freely available today, the effects of such material on society, and how
concerned citizens may band together to fight the plague of perverted
literature.

A Permanent Lupercal.

Pornography is men's control of women.

Andrea Dworkin.[2]

The Old Paganism Revisited.

Thousands of years ago, the Romans dissipated their pent-up desires for
depraved activity on a single annual holiday called Lupercal. On this day
everyone, including the most respected leaders, would indulge themselves
in the activities they considered forbidden for the rest of the year:
Rape, adultery, homosexuality, bestiality, child molestation, and
literally any other sexual perversion that crossed their minds. There were
no legal or social sanctions on this day, no matter how violent or bizarre
the acts committed.

There is no need for such a holiday in the United States now. We have
Lupercal every day. No other age or society can 'boast' of as many serial
sex murderers, robberies, rapes, divorces, or drug overdoses as the United
States in the Twentieth Century. Both this age and this country are
saturated with filth. There is a total lack of protection of the weak and
innocent. Even the sanctity of human life itself is held up to contempt
and ridicule. The most powerful weapon used by the anti-life movement
against our 'traditional' values is sexual propaganda in the form of both
'hard-core' and 'soft-core' pornography. If society is saturated with the
depiction of perverted acts, these acts will no longer be perceived as
immoral or unusual.

We have seen the effects of this propaganda campaign, whose purpose is
to numb the conscience of the members of society.

References: Introduction to Pornography.

Pornography is violent propaganda against women.

Susan Brownmiller.[2]

[1] "Pornography and Violence in the Communications Media: A Pastoral
Response." Letter from the Vatican's Pontifical Commission for Social
Communications, May 16, 1989.

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